Visit these poetry sites. You will enjoy being inspired by some of them. Many of these need to be used in a computer room if you want the learners to use them.
2. Instant Poetry Forms– This is a great interactive literacy site. Some say it is one of the best poetry resources on the web. Scroll down on the left to look the poem templates. Learners fill in the blanks with their own content and click “Create”. This can be used in a computer lesson. http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm
11. Here is another collection of words to arrange in a poetric format. The learners can then retype the words and email their completed poem to the teacher. http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magnet.html
12. This poem generator makes random poems. First, it randomly selects sentence patterns. Then, wherever the pattern has a number, it randomly selects a word from one of the numbered word lists. You can either choose one of the sample sets of words and sentence patterns, or you can enter your own words and sentence patterns http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/PoemGen/PoemGen.htm
13. This comes from the Intel Innovation in education site.The learners describe themselves and then take digital photos to represent the poem. The self-portraits use digital photography, poetry, and PowerPoint.
Poetry writing websites
Visit these poetry sites. You will enjoy being inspired by some of them. Many of these need to be used in a computer room if you want the learners to use them.
1. Giggle Poetry’s Fill in the Blank Poemsis a simple tool that allows students write the last line to a poem. It is probably best for Grades 3.
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryfun/poetryfun.html
2. Instant Poetry Forms– This is a great interactive literacy site. Some say it is one of the best poetry resources on the web. Scroll down on the left to look the poem templates.
Learners fill in the blanks with their own content and click “Create”. This can be used in a computer lesson.
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm
3. Poetry Splatter is a fun, interactive fill in the blank poem tool. Choose the type of poem you wish to write, click splatter, and the tool will toss suggested words. This is useful in a
compuer lesson.
http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/gamestation/poetrysplatter/default.mspx
4. The 'Read Write Think Acrostic Poem webiste' is great for younger students to use.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/
5. The Read Write Think Diamante Poemgives students a chance to explore diamante poems with this easy fill in the blank tool.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/diamante/
6.Read Write Think Shape Poems Tool' allows the student to choose a theme for the poem (sports, nature, school, or celebrations) to fill in his/her own content.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/shape/
7. This is a tool that allows the learners to drag the provided magnets into a haiku format.
http://www.pbs.org/parents/creativity/ideas/haiku.html
8. This is a lovely creative website that teaches the limerick, haiku, cinquain and free verse forms.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/flash_pie.htm
9. This is a collection of magnetic words that you rearrange into a poetry format
http://isnoop.net/toys/magwords.php
10. This is a magnetic poetry site from 'Read Write Think's website. It is a basic magnetic poetry tool except you can add your own words and print. This is great for a quick activity with students.
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/word_mover/words.01.html
11. Here is another collection of words to arrange in a poetric format. The learners can then retype the words and email their completed poem to the teacher.
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/magnet.html
12. This poem generator makes random poems. First, it randomly selects sentence patterns. Then, wherever the pattern has a number, it randomly selects a word from one of the numbered word lists.
You can either choose one of the sample sets of words and sentence patterns, or you can enter your own words and sentence patterns
http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/PoemGen/PoemGen.htm
13. This comes from the Intel Innovation in education site.The learners describe themselves and then take digital photos to represent the poem. The self-portraits use digital photography, poetry, and PowerPoint.
http://www97.intel.com/education/odyssey/day_111/day_111.htm